January 2019

A western soldier was killed and another one wounded in a suicide bombing that hit Syria’s Kurdish-controlled Manbij city in northern Syria Wednesday, a war monitor reported. The blast, caused by a suicide bomber who detonated himself in a…

The US-led coalition in Syria has begun withdrawing its troops, a spokesman said Friday, less than a month after US President Donald Trump made his shock announcement. The force which has battled the Islamic State group since 2014 started…

Earlier this month IRIN was with the Syrian Democratic Forces – a Kurdish-led alliance of militias fighting IS – when they intercepted a convoy of cars, trucks, and tractors carrying exhausted, hungry, and sometimes injured civilians. They…

Damascus province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from several reliable sources confirmed that the explosion that was carried out by detonating an IED in al-Adawi area…

Aleppo province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a 3rd explosion in the area located at ​​the northern sector of Aleppo countryside, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights…

Deir Ezzor province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: new batches of ISIS members and their families are still getting out towards the Syria Democratic Forces’ controlled areas in the eastern sector of Deir Ezzor countryside, and in…

The head of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia believes talks with the government over the future of the northeast region will begin in days after a “positive” reaction from Damascus. Any deal between the YPG and President Bashar al-Assad’s…

Aleppo province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: 2 explosions were heard in the towns of Ghandoura and Qabasin, in the northern countryside of Aleppo, which are under the control of the pro-Turkish factions of "Euphrates Shield",…

The living conditions have become extremely poor, and every day the length of queues gets longer in the waiting lines, within all regime forces'-controlled areas, from the waiting lines of bread to the gas, milk for children, and other…

Damascus province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: a loud blast was heard in the capital Damascus, caused by a bombing in al-Adawi area in the eastern part of the capital Damascus, intersected sources told the Syrian Observatory…